Creative Driver Modder Sends E-mail to Wired

If for some reason you’ve been sleeping for the past week, you probably overlooked the the numerous Creative-related news posts that have been hogging up the tubes. For those unaware, Creative stepped forward and told a driver modder to quit doing what he was doing, even though their own drivers are buggy and purposely lack certain functionality.

Well… I first recommend you take a look at my editorial from Monday to get a sense of what’s going on, then check out Wired for an e-mail that Daniel sent to them.

Reading through his e-mail… it becomes increasingly impressive just how overboard Creative went with their barring of his modded drivers. He admits that he shouldn’t have asked for donations, but in all 20,000 downloads of the driver, he made $146, and in Brazil, that can’t even purchase an X-Fi card. It’s also interesting to see that Creative purposely disabled features on the Audigy card under Vista in order to encourage people to upgrade to an X-Fi.

What Creative did wrong: They publicly threatened me, just to show their arrogance.
If they had contacted me by e-mail or private message I would do the same thing (remove everything) and no one would know about their insatisfaction.

Source: Wired